Patrick Blanc

Patrick Blanc (born June 3, 1953, Paris) is a French botanist who works at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where he specializes in plants from tropical forests. He is the modern innovator of the green wall, specifically, he invented the modern vertical hydroponics garden, which distinguishes it from its predecessors (aka. the Green Wall, Botanical Brick invented by Professor Stanley Hart White at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1938).Patrick Blancs contemporary patents are responsible for modernizing and popularizing the garden type. Blanc describes his vertical garden as follows:This system exemplifies Blancs ideas as a scientist and also the 15th target of the Haute Qualité Environnementale (High Quality Environment) project, although the latter gives particular stress to use of more local species, at least outdoors.In 2009 he was awarded an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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